What are the responsibilities and job description for the Machine Operator position at Western Container Corporation?
Western Container Corporation of Beloit, Wisconsin is a progressive manufacturer of spiral wound paper tubes and precision cores.
Western Container has built lasting business partnerships to enhance customer service. Our relationship with the world's top paper tube equipment designers ensures our customers benefit from the latest technological improvements in the industry.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a Machine Operator to join our team. The ideal candidate will have some experience with Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software and Microsoft Excel.
Duties:
- Setup appropriate machinery per job specifications ensuring safety, quality and appropriately applying lean strategies.
- Required to log into jobs and record production data. This includes closing open work orders and whipping orders to finished goods for shipping.
- Read work orders or production schedules to determine specifications, such as materials to be used, locations of cutting lines, or dimensions and tolerances.
- Position guides, stops, holding blocks, or other fixtures to secure and direct workpieces, using hand tools and measuring devices.
- Set stops on machine beds, change dies, and adjust components, such as rams or power presses, when making multiple or successive passes.
- Start machines, monitor their operations, and record operational data.
- Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material.
- Responsible for machine changeover and appropriate material setup.
- Examine work area at beginning and ending of each shift and during any machine changeover for safety and proper operations.
- Examine completed workpieces for defects, such as chipped edges or marred surfaces and sort defective pieces according to types of flaws.
- Measure completed workpieces to verify conformance to specifications, using micrometers, gauges, calipers, templates, or rulers.
- Safely and efficiently prepares material for shipping. This includes proper identification, tagging and wrapping.
- Required to be a team player and collaborate with various departments to meet customer satisfaction.
Skills:
- Ability to stack finished goods on pallets.
- Ability to read and comprehend instructions
- Proficiency with written correspondence
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
- Ability to Add, Subtract, Multiply and Divide various units of measure
- Ability to problem solve
Physical Demands:
- Ability to stand greater than 2/3 of the time.
- Ability to walk greater than 2/3 of the time.
- Ability to push, pull or lift up to 50 pounds 1/3 – 2/3 of the time.
- Ability to use hands, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl
This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package. If you possess the skills outlined above, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $17.00 - $19.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Evening shift
Work Location: In person
Salary : $17 - $19
